The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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Page xxvi
... steps to fuch as are more difficult . In the choice of thefe , the prac- titioner should pay a particular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articu- lation , command of voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he ...
... steps to fuch as are more difficult . In the choice of thefe , the prac- titioner should pay a particular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articu- lation , command of voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he ...
Page xxix
... step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British Legiflator , rifing up in defence of the rights of his country ; the quick recollec- tion , the forcible reasoning , and the ready utter- ance of the accomplished ...
... step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British Legiflator , rifing up in defence of the rights of his country ; the quick recollec- tion , the forcible reasoning , and the ready utter- ance of the accomplished ...
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... steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good- humour increafing the vivacity of her fifter . IN this manner they travelled over forefts and through . towns and villages , till at laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At ...
... steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good- humour increafing the vivacity of her fifter . IN this manner they travelled over forefts and through . towns and villages , till at laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At ...
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... steps of her mother through the world , dropping balm into the wounds she made , and binding up the hearts she had broken . She follows with her hair loofe , her bofom bare and throbbing , her garments torn by the briars , and her feet ...
... steps of her mother through the world , dropping balm into the wounds she made , and binding up the hearts she had broken . She follows with her hair loofe , her bofom bare and throbbing , her garments torn by the briars , and her feet ...
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... steps before his family - he reclaimed his fword . - His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almost out of the scabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend he had once given up . He looked ...
... steps before his family - he reclaimed his fword . - His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almost out of the scabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend he had once given up . He looked ...
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